he's going to launch an education program around mental health, he does that through executive order. there's some repurposing of money he already has, like i said, to deal with school preparedness and things like that. but for him, the big ticket items, the ones that are the most controversial, are going to require legislative action. >> rose: joe, do you believe the president has e will today to push this as aggressively as is necessary at a time that it has all these other issues and all these other balls in the court? >> i do. but i actually believe, again, that wayne lapierre and the more extreme elements of the gun lobby pushed anymore that direction. i certainly know from everything that i've heard today that the first lady and the president of the united states were shocked that their children were dragged into this debate in a tasteless commercial. i also know the white house a week ago or two weeks ago was talking about passing whatever they could pass but not make the mistake that george w. bush made after 2004 an overreach on social security and then have his mandate disap